Fishing for bass - the harsh realities.

[Sybarite]

Breton Bass fishermen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nADBC5ghLTk

And one capsizes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv0zVsdwAb8

Great seamanship.

 

[westhinder]

Impressive!
Thanks for sharing

 

[Robin]

Breton Bass fishermen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nADBC5ghLTk

And one capsizes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv0zVsdwAb8

Great seamanship.

No wonder they are expensive fish, but the very best. :encouragement:

 

[twohats]

Can anyone translate what is being said to the small boat at 5:40?

 

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Can anyone translate what is being said to the small boat at 5:40?

Something like: "you're passing too close, you're frightening the fish".

 

[Deleted member 36384]

.... And one capsizes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv0zVsdwAb8

Great seamanship.

Assuming there was nothing wrong with the boat and/or the helm was not incapacitated, it is hardly great seamanship in the capsize case; the boat was manoeuvred beam onto a large breaking wave, exactly the scenario that rolls boats.

 

[Robin]

Assuming there was nothing wrong with the boat and/or the helm was not incapacitated, it is hardly great seamanship in the capsize case; the boat was manoeuvred beam onto a large breaking wave, exactly the scenario that rolls boats.

I assumed Sybarite meant by the rescuer not the rescued.

 

[KellysEye]

I agree it is impressive but I'm surprised small boats were out in those conditions. When we crossed Biscay we had an un-forecast gale gusting fifty knots a Cat hove saw a big fishing boat go by but a local boat was sadly lost wih all hands so my guess is it was smaller than the big boat seen but bigger that the ones in the video because it had more crew.

 

[Robin]

I agree it is impressive but I'm surprised small boats were out in those conditions. When we crossed Biscay we had an un-forecast gale gusting fifty knots a Cat hove saw a big fishing boat go by but a local boat was sadly lost wih all hands so my guess is it was smaller than the big boat seen but bigger that the ones in the video because it had more crew.

In that place, Raz De Sein, the sea is like that on a calm day, nothing like Biscay offshore at all.

 

[fisherman]

This is the toss up between, say 160kg of bass ( as in one TV film) at £10 to £15 per kg, if the right buyers are bidding, and safety. Some of those boats have wheelhouses designed for self righting, but I don't know how often that has happened. They also have an extra, transom hung rudder and engine controls in the stern for working, leave the wheel midships and steer with the tiller.

 

[Sybarite]

This is the toss up between, say 160kg of bass ( as in one TV film) at £10 to £15 per kg, if the right buyers are bidding, and safety. Some of those boats have wheelhouses designed for self righting, but I don't know how often that has happened. They also have an extra, transom hung rudder and engine controls in the stern for working, leave the wheel midships and steer with the tiller.

The heir to Michelin was lost there a few years ago. They were also fishing for bass.

 

[Seven Spades]

Ok pleaae explain the rig. I could not see any weights or paravane. How are they catching bass and not Mackerel?

 

[fisherman]

As far as I can tell they are using lures, maybe home made from tubing on double crook hooks or maybe proprietary bought ones, several on a trace, see here at 1 minute on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONoN7b9pbv4
I see no weights, but difficult to tell, quite possibly the fish are feeding on the surface.

I made a living from bass in 1979, on Bass Point, funnily enough. Very different method from this though.

Oh, yes, lures too big for mackerel, and they are not fond of such an environment. The bass I caught used to hover behind the reef waiting for the bait to get swept over it, just where I put my lures, hopefully. Or that's what I imagined.

 

[Wandering Star]

Ok pleaae explain the rig. I could not see any weights or paravane. How are they catching bass and not Mackerel?

From watching the video, I think they get one of their own to invert his boat and the crew then swim around spotting the fish underwater and spearfishing them for their colleagues to haul aboard.

 

[fisherman]

Images of lures here:
http://ushant.unblog.fr/category/ligneur/

 

[FWB]

Six weeks to go before we are allowed to fish for our one Bass a day again. Not a lot about last year.

 

[fisherman]

Six weeks to go before we are allowed to fish for our one Bass a day again. Not a lot about last year.

Bass has been entirely removed from my licence since I caught none in the last reference year. I can't even take one as an angler, not on a registered boat. I was hoping to go back to it in retirement, will cost a bit to get a boat with bass on its licence.

 

[Josepesca]

I love fishing videos !

https://espesca.com/videos-de-pesca/

 

[capnsensible]

Seen fewer of them over the years but round the coast of Spain are a number of fish farms. Sea Bass (Lubina) is very popular. Could this model work for commercial production in the UK?

 

[Heckler]

In that place, Raz De Sein, the sea is like that on a calm day, nothing like Biscay offshore at all.

When we went through the Raz it was as flat as a pancake, we were waiting for the whirlpools and standing waves and sea demons and all that! Nothing! Sun shone, the boat behind us popped his spinny out and we wondered what it was all about!
Stu